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001 CONFIDENTIAL Press Conference #1 At the White House, Executive Offices March 8th, 1933 - 10.10 A.M. (Mr. Young introduced the members of the Press to the President.) THE PRESIDENT: It is very good to see you all and my hope is that these conferences are going to be merely enlarged editions of the kind of very de- lightful family conferences I have been holding in Albany for the last four years. I am told that what I am about to do will be- come impossible, but I am going to try it. We are not going to have any more written questions and of course while I cannot answer seventy-five or a hun- dred questions because I simply haven't got the physical time, I see no reason why I should not talk to you ladies and gentlemen off the record just the way I have been doing in Albany and the way I used to do it in the Navy Department down here. Quite a num- ber of you, I am glad to see, date back to the days of the previous existence which I led in Washington. (Interruption -- "These two boys are off for Ari- zona." John and Franklin Roosevelt saying "good-bye".) And so I think we will discontinue the practice of compelling the submitting of questions in writing before the conference in order to get an answer.